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Emily Bazelon, writer for The New York Times Magazine, the biggest case of the Supreme

Court's term was decided today.

President Trump's travel ban in a five-four decision.

The Supreme Court said the ban is constitutional, correct?

Yes, that is exactly what happened.

It was a five to four ruling and the conclusion is that the president was well within his

authority and the majority opinion by Chief Justice Roberts says that the plaintiffs

challenge based on the idea that this ban was a Muslim ban that, you know, it was discrimination

based on religion that that doesn't work, that because the president was in his authority.

Whatever problems there were with the president's statements don't infect the ban enough for

the Supreme Court to strike it down.

And was that the only question they were trying to answer?

Is this a Muslim ban or not or did they get into the idea of whether the president could

just ban immigrants from these countries?

Well, to back up a step, the first question is, did the president act within his authority?

And that's where the majority opinion is on the most solid ground.

The president has a lot of authority under immigration law in general, but in particular

in terms of issuing visas.

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